Mastering Financial Calculations: A Step-by-step Guide to the Mathematics of Financial Market Instruments - Brossura

Steiner, Bob

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0273704443 ISBN 13: 9780273704447

Casa editrice: Ft Pr, 2007

Riassunto

The new rebranded and updated edition of the bestselling hands-on practitioner¿s guide to the maths behind every key financial instrument and technique.

• Part of the renowned and hugely successful Mastering series.
• This is the definitive guide to exploring today?s financial markets in a clear and comprehensive manner.
• Written by Robert Steiner, one of the UK?s leading trainers for some of the world?s largest financial institutions.
• The book includes essential course material and practice exercises for ACI qualifications
• This book has practicality-not theory-at its heart and is packed with real-world cases, worked examples and calculations.
• AUDIENCE: Practitioners are the primary market: traders, fund managers, corporate treasurers, programmers, accountants, and risk managers. Secondary are market students.
• This book will appeal to a huge audience. 1 in 10 people work in either banking, finance or insurance.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Bob Steiner is Managing Director for Markets International and is an experienced financial trainer and consultant. He runs specialist courses for many financial institutions and investment banks and is also a Trainer for the ACI.

For more information on Bob's training activities, see www.markets-international.com

Dalla quarta di copertina

If you work in today?s financial markets, you need to master the maths

Mastering Financial Calculations is now an established classic, essential for anyone who works in finance. This second edition is a timely revision of the widely-used, hands-on guide to the maths behind every key financial instrument and technique.

• Financial market arithmetic ? starting with the absolute basics
• Covers everything you need to know, from options pricing and interest rate and currency swaps to zero-coupon rates and foreign exchange
• Brand new chapters on gold and other commodities and repos, buy/sell-backs and securities lending

Success in today's sophisticated financial markets depends on a firm understanding of key financial concepts and mathematical techniques. Mastering Financial Calculations explains them in a clear, comprehensive way ? so even if your mathematical background is limited, you'll thoroughly grasp what you need to know. Bob Steiner makes use of easy-to-follow worked examples and practical exercises to guide you through the fundamentals, making sure you?ve got the hang of these before walking you through the essential calculations behind the more advanced techniques that are widely used in the markets.

Whether you are a trader, fund manager, corporate treasurer, programmer, accountant, risk manager, or student, the exceptional clarity of this book means you'll quickly gain the ability to manipulate and apply these techniques with speed, accuracy and confidence.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ft Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0273704443
• ISBN 13: 9780273704447
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 488
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile